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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1807] and [printed approximately 1980?]
- Call Number:
- Paulson 807.00.00.91
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Men in various stages of drunkenness sit at a dinner table while others are passed out on the floor. One man in topboots dances on the table as he waves his hat and a bottle. Several of the men of the party are passed out in their chairs or have fallen on the floor. An obese parson leans against the wall as he vomits. Several of them are wearing hunting hats; on the wall are antlers and a hunting-piece
- Alternative Title:
- While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text below title: While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex being under under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day to save your life. Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas., Later state, with border added. For an earlier state lacking border, see no. 10828 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124., Late-20th century restrike on modern paper, similar to others from the same collection bearing pencil annotations suggesting printing dates around 1980. The copper plate would have been in the possession of the successor Leadenhall Press in England at the time, according to Nicholas J.S. Knowles., and Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806; see no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- Country life, Intoxication, Manners & customs, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, and Vomiting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miseries of the country [graphic]